[ILUG] xchat and Emacs keybindings - AGAIN !

[Niall O Broin]

We have visited this issue before, which is that of getting xchat to a) Not 
close the current tab when you hit ^W and b) use ^A and ^E as used in Emacs.

If you google for this, you will eventually find references to adding a line

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
   
to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 e.g. in http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.[024].0-notes.html but 
this has disappeared from http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.6.0-notes.html . 

In any event, this did not work with SuSE although the fix wasn't too bad. In 
their implementation there was a different ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file depending on 
what KDE theme you used e.g.  ~/.gtkrc-2.0-keramik, ~/.gtkrc-2.0-Plastik etc.


But this is the world of opensource, where it often seems that every bloody 
goalpost is labelled in large red blinking letters "Please move me".  Under 
SuSE 9.3, none of these files appear to be read, ^W closes my Xchat tabs 
again, and I have no Emacs editing keys. 

There is a (apparently new) file called .gtk_qt_engine_rc which has these 
comments at the start:

# This file was generated by the Gtk Qt Theme Engine
# It will be recreated when you change your KDE icon theme or widget style

I added the line 

gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

in there but it seems that the file is not only recreated when you "change 
your KDE icon theme or widget style" as after a restart of KDE my changes 
were gone.

Anyboy have a clue here?


Niall